books.html

"Nicolas P. M. Legrand" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

SMM is no longer in the base system so maybe books.html shouldn't
encourage to read it:

--- books.html.~1.85.~	Fri Dec  3 19:18:55 2010
+++ books.html		Sat Jun  4 14:27:35 2011
@@ -174,13 +174,10 @@
 <i>4.4 BSD System Manager's Manual (SMM)</i>
 <dd>published by O'Reilly, 1994
 <dd>
-This book details what you need to know to run a BSD system.
-Quite a bit of this material is relevant to OpenBSD.
-Unfortunately it is currently out of print.
-Worse, due to licensing restrictions from AT&amp;T,
-the electronic editions of these were not included in the
-4.4BSD distributions, so most of them are not included with OpenBSD.
-The few that are may be found via the <a href="docum.html">Documents page</a>.
+This book details what you need to know to run a BSD system.  It is
+now irrelevant to OpenBSD, use the <em>man</em> command and the
+OpenBSD <a href="http://faq/index.html"> website documentation</a>
+instead.
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I removed the link to docum.html. I'm not sure about what to do with
it or the {psd,usd,ssm}.html pages, anyway, the links on 4.4-psd.html
are broken.

About book.html, the page is really great and gave me lots of
excellent pointers. But:

o shouldn't there be something about Perl, since it's in base and used
in some important places (pkg_add(1), security(8))? If yes what about
Schwartz, Phoenix and Foy {Learning,Intermediate} Perl which are
excellent?

o Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote a nice primer to {Free,Net,Open}BSD in French
<http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/bsd-9782212114638> maybe
it should be added in the BSD-specific Books section?

cheers,

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